China’s Chang’e-6 mission, the first sample return mission to the far side of the Moon last year, made a fascinating ...

In a discovery that could rewrite what we know about where water comes from and the building blocks of life in the solar ...

A small asteroid measuring roughly 19 meters across has quietly shadowed Earth for approximately 65 years, orbiting alongside ...

The rare samples, uncovered by China’s Chang’e-6 mission, might help to reveal secrets of how the Solar System evolved.

Chinese scientists analysing lunar soil have discovered rare meteorite fragments believed to come from beyond the inner Solar ...

A newly identified “quasi-moon” is being described as a second moon in Earth’s orbit, and it could stay there for decades.

The most popular theory – often called the ‘big whack’ – says that about 4.5billion years ago, an early, Mars-size planet ...

The Chang'e-6 mission collected nearly two kilograms of soil from the Moon's South Pole-Aitken Basin, the largest and oldest ...

Both the United States and China are working to put their astronauts on the moon in the next few years, with NASA's acting administrator claiming that America will win the "race." But what happens if ...

Astronomers have discovered landslides on the Moon triggered by geological activity under the lunar surface. A team from China observed the so-called moonquakes using before-and-after satellite ...

The celestial object is what scientists call a quasi-moon — an asteroid that orbits the sun but appears to move alongside ...

HELSINKI — China conducted a rocket stage hot fire test Friday in the latest step in the country’s plans to land astronauts on the moon. A shortened Long March 10 rocket first stage test article fixed ...